National History Day

The New Mexico Humanities Council will be able to keep its doors open — at least for now — thanks to an injection of A quarter of a million dollars in/ funding from the Mellon Foundation. The money is meant to help alleviate the sting of the Trump Administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE group eliminating grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of their war on federal spending.

In an age when misinformation abounds, and some try to change history to fit their political agendas, one national non-profit is seeking to create informed citizens who engage thoughtfully with civics and their place in history. KUNM’s Daniel Montano spoke with some of the students involved in National History Day, or NHD.